• Currently, there are two duchies in England; the royal Duchy of Lancaster and the royal Duchy of Cornwall. Unlike historic duchies in England, these are no longer...
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    of Limburg Duchy of Livonia Duchy of Vasconia Duchy of Pakualaman Duchy of Mangkunegaran Constitutional status of Cornwall Duchies in England Underland...
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    The Duchy of Cornwall (Cornish: Duketh Kernow) is one of two royal duchies in England, the other being the Duchy of Lancaster. The eldest son of the reigning...
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    approved the civil list and left the duchies in possession of the royal family. The Parliament debated the two duchies' ownership multiple times, including...
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  • nobility Dukes in the United Kingdom List of dukedoms in the peerages of Britain and Ireland Royal dukedoms in the United Kingdom Duchies in England...
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    suggest he was brought up predominantly in England, while Judith Green argues he was initially brought up in the Duchy. He was probably educated by the Church...
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    Normans (section England)
    Viking ancestors as mercenaries and adventurers. In the 11th century, Normans from the duchy conquered England and Southern Italy. The Norman dynasty had a...
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    United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 1927 and after. Duchies in England Category:Coats_of_Arms_of_UK_Dukes List of Marquessates List of Earldoms...
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  • Scotland Solicitor General to the Duchy of Cornwall, one of two royal duchies in England, the other being the Duchy of Lancaster Solicitor General of...
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    Duke (redirect from Royal duchy)
    used until the end of the Carolingian dynasty in France in 987. The stem duchies were the constituent duchies of the kingdom of Germany at the time of the...
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    who became king of England in 1154. In 1202, Philip II of France declared Normandy forfeit to him and seized it by force of arms in 1204. It remained disputed...
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  • office-bearers in Germany Voivode or Count palatine, a governor in Poland The holder of a county palatine, northern counties/duchies in England Palatine, County...
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  • in the United Kingdom List of dukedoms in the peerages of Britain and Ireland List of dukes in the peerages of Britain and Ireland Duchies in England...
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    crown in exchange for a generous pension, which he used to fund construction projects in the duchies. On his death on 23 February 1766 the duchies passed...
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    matters and questions that involve both Duchies. For both duchies, however, there was a Ministry of State in Gotha but Coburg and Gotha had their own...
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    partition of Verdun in 843 and soon reappeared as a duchy under it. In 1153, an enlarged Aquitaine pledged loyalty to the Angevin kings of England. As a result...
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    confirmed in the inheritance of Guelders in 1379, and from 1393 onwards held both duchies in personal union (in Guelders as William I, and in Jülich as...
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    married Eleanor, Duchess of Aquitaine. The Kingdom of England and the Duchy of Normandy remained in personal union until John Lackland, Henry II's son and...
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    Henry Curtmantle,[why?] was King of England from 1154 until his death in 1189. During his reign he controlled England, substantial parts of Wales and Ireland...
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    supported by England and France. The independent sovereign nature of the Duchy began to come to an end upon the death of Francis II in 1488. The Duchy was inherited...
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    became the core of the later duchy of Normandy. Normandy may have been used as a base when Scandinavian attacks on England were renewed at the end of the...
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    part of the United Duchies of Jülich-Cleves-Berg. Its territory lies in present-day Germany (part of North Rhine-Westphalia) and in the present-day Netherlands...
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    of Münster in the east and the Duchy of Brabant in the west. Its history is closely related to that of its southern neighbours: the Duchies of Jülich and...
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    to the merger in personal union with the Duchy of Aquitaine to the later period as a dependency of the Plantagenet kings of England. In the Hundred Years'...
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    Court of Justice, who sits in the north west of England, and is no longer appointed to that position as legal officer of the Duchy. Under the Promissory Oaths...
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    The Duchy of Burgundy (/ˈbɜːrɡəndi/; Latin: Ducatus Burgundiae; French: Duché de Bourgogne) emerged in the 9th century as one of the successors of the...
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    German stem duchies of East Francia; Duke Henry the Fowler was elected German king in 919. Upon the deposition of the Welf duke Henry the Lion in 1180, the...
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  • even though later attempts to merge the duchies failed. The duchies of Saxe-Weimar and Saxe-Eisenach were in personal union from 1741, when the ruling...
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    Touraine, and to the north of Blois was the Duchy of Normandy, from which William the Conqueror had conquered England in 1066. William's children were still fighting...
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    King of England from 1399 to 1413. Henry was the son of John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster, himself the son of Edward III. Henry was involved in the 1388...
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